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Lost post from 2009 – my notes from Disney’s UP!
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Notes about Disney’s UP! (one year late)
I was in Walt Disney World on June 14th 2009; I’d taken a professional certification exam the day before in Orlando and stayed the weekend to browse the parks. Well, it was so hell hot, I decided to cool off by taking myself to the AMC theaters in Downtown Disney. Pixar’s UP! was playing there, and I loved it. I made notes of my favorite parts and quotes… and then promptly lost the post! For some reason, I dated it June 14th 2010 instead of 2009, so it’s been sitting all this time waiting to auto-post. Anyhow, other than this little introduction, I’m not altering the post – however it was written, that’s how it was written!
I would, however, love to hear YOUR impressions of the film one year later – comments, please!
- Ellie had a book called “My Adventures”. I have a website called “My Adventures“
- “It’s like America – only, south!”
- Females are drawn like the females in BOLT – in this way, animators create “cousins” across films. Check the females in The Incredibles too. Check animators of various films, who was in charge of which characters.
- Amused by use of Bizet’s “Habanera” when he was coming down the stairs in his elevator chair
- Second time in 24 hours I saw someone make a “w” with their fingers. Saw Cameron Diaz do it in “The Sweetest Thing” the night before
- Little touches, like when the bad guy in the suit puts his hand possessively on the picket fence post
- Stuff I’m going to do “someday” was on these pages – sometimes, you get a big, fat NO from the Universe.
- I heard the Miss Gulch bicycle music in my head as the house was tossed about by the storm
- Another Wizard of Oz parallel – “it was in my own backyard at one point but I didn’t realize it at the time” – dreams of “someday” – sometimes you don’t realize it, but “someday” is NOW.
- There’s no place like home – Ellie IS home, the physical location is irrelevant.
- Little kid stuff – knee, elbow, another of the little touches.
- “I do I do I do ever so want the ball.”
- “Tents are HARD!”
- “I like you temporarily.”
- “I will stop the dogs – stop, you dogs!”
- “It is funny because the squirrel gets dead.”
- “I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most… I like that curb.”
- Clinging to the dream can be the wrong priority. But how to know if let go or hold on? LOOK FOR SIGNS.
- Dogs playing poker – great pop culture iconic reference
- Old creaky warriors – flying dentures – make me bust up laughing
- House disappears into the ether – home just alive in memories now (but Ellie made sure it landed where it was supposed to land)
- HAPPY ENDING I wish!
“Adventure is out there!”
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A Downtown Disney mystery
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I don’t know how to tell you this, so I’m just going to spit it out – the Stepford-stewardess-zombie dolls are GONE!
Intrepid readers may recall that I discovered these oddities during my March weekend in Walt Disney World while browsing the Tren-D boutique in Downtown Disney. If you missed it or don’t remember, you can click here to read about it – go ahead, we’ll wait…. oh good you’re back. Surely you can see that the “Stepford Stewardesses” are a little strange. Each doll is clad in identical dresses with identical accessories and identical stares… I suspected then that there was something a little creepy about them, and apparently I was right!
Look – they’re GONE! It’s like they just marched away. No trace of them whatsoever. Where did they go? What is their mission? Who is controlling them and their vacant little staring eyes? And where did all these over-sized chess pieces come from?
I began to roam the store in search of them. Surely they could not have wandered far! Disney does not allow their theming to just get up and walk off. Unless… unless the Stepford-stewardess-zombie dolls had actually taken control of the store and all the Cast Members in it!
No sooner did I have this terrifying thought, then the teeny tiny hairs on the back of my neck began to stand on end. I felt uncomfortable, like I was being watched… Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch, whereupon I came face to face with a site so horrifying, I nearly fled screaming in abject terror. For there, on a shelf in the corner stood…
Stepford Polka Dot dolls
(queue scary music )
Have they read my mind? Do they know I suspect them of this diabolical plot to take over Downtown Disney by means of Stepford-zombie mind control? Are they hiding under my bed this very minute? Must I be COMPLETELY mad to be posting this?
NEXT WEEK: The Polka Dot dolls reveal all!
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Dinosaur Week: giant Lego monsters!
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Welcome to Dinosaur Week at My Mobile Adventures *~*~* As mentioned elsewhere, the only real reason it is Dinosaur Week is because I have pictures of dinosars to share 
Today’s offering comes from Downtown Disney. As many are aware, there is a Lego store there, and they’ve been displaying complex, life-sized Lego sculptures for many years. They are swapped out periodically, so sometimes you get a surprise on your next visit.
These dinosaurs stood very close to the shore. One of the current displays is an entire tourist family. I have to say that my all-time faves were the dragon and the guy who was snoring on the bench outside the store (I think he looked like Frasier from the TV show). I was on a boat from the Port Orleans French Quarter resort when I snapped this photo, so that’s why it’s a behind-and-to-the-side view.
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Shopportunity knocks: from whimsical to bizarre
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My new favorite place for a Disney shopportunity is Tren-D, a new-ish high-end boutique attached to Team Mickey in Downtown Disney. This is where you will find some of the more… um, “interesting” Disney merchandise on property. I’d call the place a mix between “whimisical” and “edgy”. Perhaps that’s why Mickey has that look on his face – he’s a bit stunned, don’t you think? Certainly all the new “Alice” merchandise will fit here nicely.
Here is one of those “whimsical” things I was talking about. This is a human-sized statue of Mickey Mouse that’s been splatter-painted in bright primary colors. He stands sentinel between Tren-D and Team Mickey, gesturing for us to enter the boutique. Of course he wants us to go in – chances are very good that you will walk out of there sporting a lighter wallet and a high-end purse you didn’t know you needed and never imagined you’d fall in love with
They look like Stepford airline stewardesses but I believe they are actually supposed to represent Disneyland cast members from the early, early days. A single one of these effigies would have been sort of an art-deco tribute to Disneyana, a 20th century object d’art – but a collection of them all standing in a row, all looking exactly alike – well, it’s just creepy. I do like the quasi-psychedelic Mickey portrait, though He makes a nice backdrop.
I hope you enjoyed our Ruby Tuesday shopping trip!
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On the way back to the hotel, saw this big yellow thing in the sky
On the way back to the hotel, saw this big yellow thing in the sky, originally uploaded by Tink*~*~*.
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I don’t get this Vinylmation thing. Really, I just don’t get it!
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WHAT have I done?!!?!?
Dooney and Bourke… I never even heard of them until they made these bags. I didn’t even think I would like a bag with Mickey all over it! Crap, why did I go in that store!
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PS – to see the actual purse I bought, I posted a pic to Twitpics the next morning – CLICK HERE
